Re: Path to polyfilling CSS functions?

On Monday 2012-08-06 15:02 -0700, Boris Smus wrote:
> Writing polyfills for this should be easy, right? Well, not really. It used
> to be the case the the CSS object model would retain unknown CSS rules as
> UnknownRules. However, this changed in 2003 as a result of this email [2].
> As far as I know, there has been an attempt to get UnknownRule back into
> the spec [3], through a CSS Editing Task Force, but nothing ever came of
> this.

The issue you're concerned about is retaining unknown declarations
within style rules, not retaining unknown rules.

I think if what you were interested in were supporting unknown
properties, it would be useful to have an API like the ones described
in:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188321#c14
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14203

Unknown values of existing properties would be a bit harder.

> It would be great if UnknownRule was still available, since it'd allow us

I think characterizing this as "still available" is misleading.
There was an entirely fictional specification that briefly described
a feature without making any serious attempt to explain how it
should work.  I don't think it was ever implemented.

-David

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Received on Monday, 6 August 2012 22:17:06 UTC